Method of making pockets



June 3 1924' J. STERNBERG ET AL METHOD OF MAKING POCKBTS Filed June 12. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet. 1 4 72 Invervkorf Jaw Jter'rzbar'g Gama Shara/ v June 3 1 924.

J. STERNBERG ET AL.

METHOD OF MAKING. POCKETS Filed June 12, 1923,

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@NETE' EETATJQE Lassen JACOB STERNBERG AND SAM SHERAK, OF NEVI ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSlG-NORS TO JOS. STERNBEEG 80 SON'S, OF NEW QRLEANS, LOUISIANA, A FIRM COMPOSED OF JGSEIPH STERNBERG, MELVILLE STERNBERG, AND JACOB STERNBERG.

METHOD OF llfAKINC-r POCKETS.

Application filed. June 12, 1923. Serial No. 644,936.

1 a?! whom may concern:

Be it known that we, Jsoos STERNBERG and SAM Snnnan, citizens of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements: in Methodsof Making Pockets; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains toma-ke and use the same. I V

The present invention relates to a pocket structure and the method of making the same.

An object of the invention is to provide a pocket structure which may be inserted in a garment, such as in trousers, with ease during manufacture and which is strong and durable and will last throughout the life of the material of the garment.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved method of making and fitting a pocket to a garment wherein there is absolutely no hole or opening where the pocket is tacked to the side seam, a disadvantage which is prevalent in prior pocket structures, and wherein the raw end which is usually found on the facing of the side pocket is entirely eliminated.

WVith the foregoing and other objects in view the invention will be more fully described hereinafter and will be particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Fig. l is a plan view of the blank from which a pocket is made and having stitched thereon facing strips of the material from which the garment is made and to which the pocket is to be attached;

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the blank overturned and stitched at its lower edge to initially form the pocket;

Fig. 3 is a. plan view of the pocket as applied to a front section of the garment;

Fig. 4 is a similar View showing the top and bottom portions of the pocket tacked together and to the front section of the garment.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the pocket in the completed condition of Fig. at partly stitched to a rear section of the garment;

Fig. (3 shows the completed pocket as applied to the garment; and

Fig. 7 shows a fragmentary perspective view of the outer side of the garment sections of Fig. 5 with the pocket in a slightly open position.

Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 shows the blank 10 which is of suitable size and configuration to provide the opposite side walls of the pocket when the blank is folded on the median fold line 11. The upper lateral edges of the blank are converged upwardly to provide the entrance or front edges of the pocket near the top thereof when folded and being preferably curved or bulged outwardly as shown at 12 to meet conditions found in the particular garment to which the pocket may be applied.

The blank 10, before being folded, is provided with facing strips 13 which may be of the material of which the garmentis made, these facing strips extending from near the top of the blank, at each side along the edges 12 and down to an intermediate portion of the blank. The strips 13 are of sufficient width to provide a facing at the entrance to the pocket to protect the material of the blank 10 and to cover the same from View.

The strips 13 are titched or otherwise suitably secured to the blank 10 and the blank is then folded over on the line 11 into the form shown in Fig. 2 when the bottom edge of the blank is stitched together by a line of stitching 14- to close the bottom of the pocket.

After the pocket is thus formed, it may be applied to the garment by first stitching one edge 12 of the pocket to the corresponding edge of the front section 15 of a garment such as shown in Fig. 3. The line of stitching 16 is used to not only connect the edge of the pocket to the section 15, but to also bind and secure the adjacent facing strip 13 to the pocket and the section. It is at this time that the combined edges of the pocket and the garment section 15 are cut to the required configuration, such as byrounding or beveling off the upper portions of said edges as shown in Figure 3 along the line of stitching 16, to facilitate introduction of the hand into the pocket when the garment is completed. This rounded off or bevelling of the edge of the pocket leaves a tab or projection at the top of the pocket to admit securing of both edges of the pocket blank in the side seam of the garment.

After this is done the upper corners of the pocket blank are brought together and tacked, as at 17, in such position as to close the top of the pocket, and the overturned sides of the blank are also tacked, as at 18, together and to the garment section for reinforcing the top and bottom portions of the pocket at its entrance and to further secure the pocket to the garment section. The upper tacking 17 also includes the front section 15 of the garment.

A rear section 19 of the garment may now be added to the structure, as shown in Figs. 5 and 7. The forward edge of the section 19 issecured to the rear edge of the section 15 of the garment by a line of stitching 20 which extends through the edge 12 at the inner side of the pocket, the outer edge 12 of the pocket being left free in order that access may be gained to the pocket from the outer side of the garment. The line of stitching 20 is carried upwardly to the upper edge of the garment as shown in Fig. 6 to complete the garment and reinforce the pocket mounting.

A pocket which is thus constructed is not only securely fastened between the sections of'the garment but is reinforced at top and bottom and along its opening edges and all of the unfinished edges are turned in and not exposed either to the interior of the pocket or at the seams along which the pocket is secured to the garment.

It is understood that changes in form, proportion, size, and minor details may be madewithin the scope of the clain'i without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention.

lVhat is claimed is That method of forming a pocket in a garment which consists in folding a pocket blank over upon itself on a medial fold line and stitching the blank along its lower overlapping edges to form a pocket, placing strips against the opposite walls of the blank at i the open edge thereof, stitching the rear edge of'a front garment section. to one open edgeof the pocket blank and including the adjacent strips, tacking the top and bottom portions of the pocket blank together and to said front strip of the garment, and securing a rear section of the garment along the opposite open edge of the pocket blank and along the adjacent edge of said front section.

JACOB STERNBERG.

SAM SHERAK. 

